I'm just trying to walk myself home.
The Camino Will Always Be With You It’s normal to have post Camino blues. Coming home from any grand adventure is a big mix of feelings. I found myself both glad to be home and constantly missing the trail. And of course, I missed my trail sisters! I wrote them a letter a few days …
Camino de Santiago Day 6: Arzua to O Pedrouzo Fifth Day of Walking the Last 100 km to Santiago 19.5 kilometers 12 miles Elevation: 382.12 meters up + 473.69 meters down Earth is crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God, But only she who sees takes off her shoes. -Elizabeth Barrett …
Melide to Arzua Fourth Day of Walking the Last 100 km to Santiago 14 kilometers 9 miles Elevation: 301,54 meters up + 370.47 meters down I woke up feeling so refreshed on this day! It must have been the swim in our albergue pool that did it! We walked back up the street to …
2020 Favorites Happy New Year from Castle Bluff! We are staying at a cabin in the woods where the mood outside is matching all my feels about the year we just finished. I am happy to join in the collective sigh of relief that 2020 is officially over. For the final month of 2020, I …
Longer Walks For Seeking The Sacred Over the last few weeks, I have been going for longer and longer walks. Four times a week, I’m crossing the five mile mark, which is long for me friends. It’s partly because I am training for a long walk (Yes, I have bravely put something on the calendar …
Come dream with me about what is possible. Near the beginning of the summer, I wrote this post about imagining something new. I wrote it publicly, but actually I think that it was for me. Those words have been the oars that have moved me slowly and quietly over the waves of the …
The Same Walk Every Day We’re moving today, so it seems like a good time to say thank you to the walk I’ve taken almost every day in the year that we’ve lived here. Since we move around quite a bit, I have come to really value the ability to take the same walk every …
This strange summer has unfolded much differently than I imagined it six months ago, both in the world and in my life. The numbers of those who are sick continue to grow. As do the number of protestors. Some days all I can see is that the sick are forgotten and the protestors are gassed. …
Spring has officially arrived at Augustana. And I am super grateful. All of our other local trails have now closed, so we are walking at Augustana every day. I notice new flowers opening up every day. Even if a lot of the trees are still bare, the grass is green. On our street, this tulip …
A Meditation from Richard Rohr’s The Universal Christ Hello sweet friends. I’m locked down in quarantine just like most everyone else. But last week I was in Arkansas and I spent a couple of days hiking with my dad, and while I was in one of my favorite places, I sat down and recorded this …
A Recipe for Moon Milk Y’all recently I have started making Moon Milk, also sometimes called Golden Milk. I have been loving the addition of turmeric to All The Things lately. I enjoy a turmeric tea and a turmeric latte, but I am even more delighted with the discovery of Moon Milk because of its …
Do you know what happens in February? First and foremost, it’s Black History Month, so it’s a good month to read a book by a Black American. (Need a suggestion? I got you.) But also, February is sometimes all dressed up in PINK, Because of St. Valentine’s Day. Which I know has been co-opted into …
Belorado to Villafranca Montes de Oca. 12 kilometers. Day 5 on The Camino. Or We Walked In The Snow But This Day Was Still My Favorite. This post is our trip log from Belorado to Villafranca Montes de Oca. You can read more posts from this walk, or from other Camino trips. We got out …
Hello 2020. I’m grateful you’re here. I am already pumped for all that’s coming in 2020. It’s going to be an AMAZING year, I can feel it. But before we get too far into 2020, I want to I want to take a minute to record some favorites from 2019. So here are some of …
Logrono to Navarrete. At 12 kilometers, Day 1 on The Camino could also be titled: Let’s Ease Into This, Shall We? We didn’t wake up early in Logrono. It was probably around 10am when we walked out of our little flat in Logrono and stepped onto the Camino. We knew we were starting with a …
We’ve moved to Rock Island. Here’s what we’ve been up to for the last couple of months as we’ve explored our new surroundings on the Mississippi River in the Quad Cities.
10 Easy Things You Could Do On MLK Day To Honor the Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. 1. Listen to a whole MLK speech. When we only see the popular quotes pulled from his speeches, we are in danger of consuming a sanitized version of Dr. King that makes us comfortable. Listening to Dr. …
Favorites of 2018 Hello 2019. I’m grateful you’re here. There are so many things I am already hoping and praying for in the year ahead. But before I get ahead of myself, I want to take a minute to be grateful for what 2018 brought into my life. So here are some of the books, …
2 favorite salad dressings, 4 favorite essays, 2 books and 1 song. Happy Friday friends. I’ve made several jars of my two favorite salad dressings (Goddess and Ginger) so I’ve been eating salads for days. Ben: Let me guess what’s for dinner? Salad again? It’s been a minute since I did any kind of life …